Unintended Allocation of Spatial Attention to Goal-Relevant but Not to Goal-Related Events

作者：Vogt Julia^*; De Houwer Jan; Moors Agnes

来源：Social Psychology, 2011, 42(1): 48-55.

DOI：10.1027/1864-9335/a000042

• spatial attention
• attentional bias
• goals
• motivation
• intentions

We investigated whether words relevant to a person's current goal and words related to that goal influence the orienting of attention even when an intention to attend to the goal-relevant and goal-related stimuli is not present. Participants performed a modified spatial cueing paradigm combined with a second task that induced a goal. The results showed that the induced goal led to the orienting of attention to goal-relevant words in the spatial cueing task. This effect was not found for goal-related words. The results provide evidence for accounts of automatic goal pursuit, which state that goals automatically guide attention to goal-relevant events.

• 出版日期2011